Hat-fastener.



L. F. SGHRAGE.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.18, 1914.

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LOUIS F. SCHRAGE, 0F PALATIN, ILLINOIS.

HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Application filed March 18, 1914. Serial No. 825,531.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs F. ScnRAGE, a citizen of the United States, Palatin, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hat fastening means and its object is to produce a device of this class by which a hat can be retained upon the head in the face of a strong wind and without efiort on the part of the wearer.

Another object is to produce a device of this class that, when not in use, is automatically drawn up into the hat and out of sight so that it may not interfere with any other object when the hat is put upon a rack or rested in any manner and that will not draw undesirable attention to the hat.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of said specification and in which Figure l is a vertical section through a hat provided with my improved hat fastener. Fig. 2 is a similar View with the fastener shown in operative position. Fig. 3 is a front view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view of the hat, with fastener, in use.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 indicates the crown of a hat, 2 the rim and 3 the inside band of leather or similar material. To the rim 3 I secure a pair of oppositely disposed rectangular metal plates 4, 4 by rivets or similar fastening means 5, 5 and said plate, band and hat crown are apertured as at 6 to permit passage therethrough of an elastic residing at? 5 band 7 which is secured at each end to one of the gently curved arms 8, 8 which are pivoted to the plates 4, 4. The band 7 passes about the outside of the crown of the hat at the front of the hat. The tendency of the band 7 is to draw both arms 8, 8 up into inoperative position inside the hat as shown in Fig. 2.

In operation the arms 8, 8 are manually drawn into approin'mately vertical position against the tension of the band 7 before the hat is put on. When the hat is put on the arms are placed back of the ears as plainly shown in Fig. 4. Should the wind strike the hat from the rear or from either side the arms 8, 8 will engage the ears of the wearer and so retain the hat in position. Should a wind strike the hat from beneath the rim in front or back the arms 8, 8 will perform a similar service. Should a wind strike a hat directly in front the tension of the elastic band 7 will be sufiicient to cause the hat, at this point, to frictionally engage the forehead of the wearer and so prevent its removal.

What is claimed is In a pair of apertured oppositely disposed plates adapted to be secured to the inner hat band, curved arms pivotally secured to said plates and adapted, when in operative posi tion, to project below the rim of the hat and a flexible band engaging said arms and passing through the apertured portions of said plates and about the front of the crown of the hat to normally retain said arms in inoperative position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS F. SOHRAGE.

Witnesses:

HERMAN F. SCHRAGE, MARTIN SoHRAGn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents,

Washington, D. C. 

